Zsa Zsa Gabor Quotes

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Love is something you fall into.

Love is our human miracle.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

Love is the only rational act.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Love reasons without reason.

Love is the force that makes us fully human.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.